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• SB 1463 Became law 114
  Morgan County - Subject to local approval, establishes that the County Attorney must be a licensed practicing attorney appointed or hired subject to the vote of the Morgan County Commission to serve a four-year term and does not need to be a resident of Morgan County to serve as County Attorney. - Amends Chapter 467 of the Private Acts of 1951; as amended.
  May 14, 2025: Pr. Ch. 10
• SB 758 Became law 114
  Industrial Development - As enacted, redefines "remediation site" to include a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity whose main purpose is to promote industrial development and new nuclear development upon dissolution of the existing nonprofit entity. - Amends TCA Title 7, Chapter 53, Part 3.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 379
• SB 747 Became law 114
  TennCare - As enacted, extends the ground ambulance service annual assessment to June 30, 2026; makes other revisions to the Ground Ambulance Service Provider Assessment Act. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5, Part 15.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 378
• SB 763 Became law 114
  Tobacco, Tobacco Products - As enacted, requires the department of revenue to maintain a directory on its website that lists all vapor products certified as authorized to be sold in this state; levies certain privilege taxes. - Amends TCA Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5; Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 15; Title 47, Chapter 25; Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 10 and Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 26.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 324
• SB 750 Became law 114
  Immigration - As enacted, requires the centralized immigration enforcement division within the department of safety to provide a report to the chief clerk of each house of the general assembly and the legislative librarian regarding illegal alien criminal activity in this state. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 7; Title 8; Title 38 and Title 68.
  May 13, 2025: Pub. Ch. 323
• SB 751 In committee 114
  Regional Authorities and Special Districts - As enacted, adds the MidSouth development district to the list of development districts to which this state intends to assist financially; specifies an overall state funding level for the nine development districts; changes the calculation for how much funding each development district will receive. - Amends TCA Title 13, Chapter 14, Part 1.
  May 8, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 332
• SB 251 Became law 114
  Public Employees - As enacted, establishes that a retiree who is a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system must have had a bona fide separation of service before the retiree is allowed to accept temporary reemployment without a loss or suspension of benefits in the retirement system; makes other changes to the present law relative to reemployment after retirement from public employment. - Amends TCA Section 8-25-213 and Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
  May 2, 2025: Pub. Ch. 159
• SB 753 Became law 114
  Local Education Agencies - As enacted, authorizes LEAs to enroll LEAs' employees' children into the voluntary pre-kindergarten program if space is available after enrollment of at-risk children; authorizes LEAs to charge the employee tuition and fees for such enrollment. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 225
• SB 755 Became law 114
  Agriculture, Dept. of - As enacted, creates the Tennessee agriculture and forestry hall of fame as the successor to, and a continuation of, the Tennessee agricultural hall of fame; makes related changes. - Amends TCA Title 43, Chapter 1, Part 6.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 226
• SB 741 Became law 114
  Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a criminal offense of possessing, distributing, or producing technology, software, or digital tools designed for the purpose of creating material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive; establishes relevant factors to be considered in determining whether artificial technology, software, or digital tools are used or possessed with intent to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity or simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive. - Amends TCA Title 39.
  Apr 29, 2025: Pub. Ch. 257
• SB 749 In committee 114
  Interest Rates - As enacted, removes the weighted average yield of the accepted offers of the Federal National Mortgage Association's current free market system auction and the 30-year treasury yield as the two bases upon which the maximum effective rate of interest on home loans may be set by the commissioner of financial institutions, and replaces them with the average prime offer rate. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47.
  Apr 28, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 290
• SJR 354 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Interns - Reagan Hill -
  Apr 24, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 752 In committee 114
  Taxes, Business - As introduced, authorizes the commissioner of revenue to change the due date of the taxpayer's business tax return to a date that is not less than 60 calendar days, rather than two calendar months, following the end of the taxpayer's business tax period for purposes of the commissioner changing a taxpayer's business tax period to correspond to the taxpayer's fiscal year. - Amends TCA Title 67, Chapter 4, Part 7.
  Apr 17, 2025: Placed on Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee calendar for 4/21/2025
• SJR 355 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Anna Collins -
  Apr 16, 2025: Enrolled and ready for signatures
• SB 754 In committee 114
  Economic and Community Development - As introduced, enacts the "Courthouse Square Revitalization Act." - Amends TCA Title 6 and Title 67, Chapter 6.
  Apr 7, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways & Means Committee
• SB 759 In committee 114
  Boats, Boating - As introduced, requires a person to purchase a permit in order to operate a vessel on the intrastate waters of this state that is exempt from being numbered for identification in this state due only to the vessel having a valid number awarded to it pursuant to a federally approved numbering system of another state. - Amends TCA Title 69, Chapter 9.
  Apr 1, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee
• SJR 309 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Public Service - Captain Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Captain Sunita "Suni" Williams -
  Mar 31, 2025: Signed by H. Speaker
• SB 744 In committee 114
  Infectious Diseases - As enacted, directs the commissioner of health to, on or before July 1, 2025, add alpha-gal syndrome to the department of health's published list of reportable diseases and conditions, the occurrence of which must be reported to the department by a healthcare provider pursuant to existing administrative rule. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 63 and Title 68.
  Mar 31, 2025: Comp. became Pub. Ch. 56
• SB 742 In committee 114
  Dentists and Dentistry - As introduced, requires the commissioner of health to create programs designed to enhance access to dental services in rural and underserved areas subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration. - Amends TCA Title 63, Chapter 5 and Title 68.
  Mar 26, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Health and Welfare Committee
• SB 1125 In committee 114
  Consumer Protection - As introduced, prohibits an online payment system from freezing the funds of a user without first providing the user with a written notice of the online payment system's intent to freeze the user's funds; designates a violation as an unfair or deceptive act or practice pursuant to the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977. - Amends TCA Title 45 and Title 47, Chapter 18.
  Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 761 In committee 114
  Expunction - As introduced, shortens the length of time that a petitioner must wait before having an eligible Class D felony expunged from 10 years after the completion of the sentence imposed for the offense the petitioner is seeking to have expunged, to eight years from completion. - Amends TCA Title 40, Chapter 32.
  Mar 25, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 46 Became law 114
  Celina - Subject to local approval, increases the number of aldermen from three to five. - Amends Chapter 90 of the Private Acts of 1991; as amended.
  Mar 21, 2025: Pr. Ch. 1
• SB 746 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, allows a third grade student who achieves a performance level rating of "approaching" on the English language arts portion of the student's most recent Tennessee comprehensive assessment program test, and who has earned an overall letter grade of A or B in the student's third grade ELA class, to be promoted to fourth grade if promotion is recommended by a majority of the categories of participants in a conference convened by the student's LEA or public charter school; requires a student promoted to fourth grade through such process to receive tutoring services for the entirety of the student's fourth grade year. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SB 743 In committee 114
  Environment and Conservation, Department of - As introduced, prohibits the board of water and wastewater operator certification from delegating, by contract or other agreement, to a third-party its authority to determine minimum operator competency or to prepare examinations administered to applicants seeking operator certification; establishes requirements for such examinations and minimum scores required for issuance of a certificate. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 9.
  Mar 19, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Energy, Ag., and Nat. Resources Committee
• SB 745 In committee 114
  Motor Vehicles - As introduced, creates a Class A misdemeanor for a person who is in the United States without legal authorization to operate a motor vehicle without possessing a valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility; limits the fine for such offense to a maximum of $1,000. - Amends TCA Title 39 and Title 55.
  Mar 17, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SJR 184 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - John Charles McNeeley -
  Mar 13, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 181 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - R.W. Groom III -
  Mar 13, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 143 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Michael Timme -
  Mar 12, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 757 In committee 114
  Local Education Agencies - As introduced, requires LEAs to publish the school lunch menu on the LEA's website. - Amends TCA Title 49.
  Mar 12, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Education Committee
• SJR 54 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - James Ralph Inman, Sr. -
  Mar 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SJR 190 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Death - Sheriff Wayne M. Potter -
  Mar 4, 2025: Signed by Governor.
• SB 756 In committee 114
  Pensions and Retirement Benefits - As introduced, authorizes a retired campus police officer to be reemployed in a position covered by TCRS as a law enforcement officer without the loss or suspension of the retired officer's TCRS benefits; extends the repeal date for the provision authorizing retired law enforcement officers to be reemployed without the loss or suspension of retirement benefits from June 30, 2025, to June 30, 2027. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 36, Part 8.
  Mar 3, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee
• SB 762 In committee 114
  Lottery, Corporation - As introduced, requires each county to levy a tax at the rate of 5 percent of the sales price of lottery tickets or shares when sold at retail within the jurisdiction of the county; requires the state to administer the collection of the tax. - Amends TCA Title 4; Title 5; Title 6; Title 7; Title 9; Title 49 and Title 67.
  Feb 21, 2025: Assigned to General Subcommittee of Senate State & Local Government Committee
• SB 1333 In committee 114
  Fireworks - As introduced, extends from 60 to 75 days, the time following receipt of a completed application within which the fire marshal must issue a fireworks exhibitor's license to an applicant who has complied with state law and rule relevant to the exhibitor licensing process. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SB 1334 In committee 114
  Fireworks - As introduced, extends from 10 to 14 days following the date of last publication in a newspaper of a notice from the state fire marshal about the seizure of and intent to destroy contraband fireworks, the period during which an owner may claim the fireworks and after which, if no such ownership claim is made, the state fire marshal may destroy the fireworks. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 104.
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Commerce and Labor Committee
• SJR 60 In committee 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Michael Timme -
  Feb 12, 2025: Passed on Second Consideration, refer to Senate Calendar Committee
• SJR 33 Adopted 114
  Memorials, Recognition - Pastor Ted Clower -
  Feb 10, 2025: Signed by Governor.